The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

WE don't believe now that the Republican
ticket in 1888 will be Lincoln and Grant.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
THERE is a contest coming between the Ameri-
can boy who wants to earn his own living and
the labor bosses who won't let hinl.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
LABOR parties, as SUCH must be either weak
or transitory, and it is evident that the George
movement has spent its force. 1t will have,
hereafter. significance in general politics.
New York Times.
AS public opinion is now formed, protection
will beat free trade every time. The free
traders should devote themselves to converting
the people to their views before making them
the keynote of politics.-New York Sun.
HENRY GEORGE may not be an important
presidential factor next year, but he will prob
ably be factor of some sort. The man who
can swing SO, 900 votes in New York. 100
votes, is not to be ignored. Chicago Mail
THE people of Chicago realize how unuttera-
bly, sad this whole miserable business has been
to the relatives of the unfortunate men. and
they are prepared to give them full measure of
sympathy under proper clrcumstances.-Chica
go Inter Ocean.
Mr. CLEVELAND has often insisted that the
President should be respected. But he should
also be respectable. The President who inter-
feres in local election and indorses dead-beat
who has been the tool or Tweed, is not respect
able.-NIilwaukee Sentinel.
THE lesson to be learned from all this is plain.
The path of the Republican party hes straight
before it, and the way is bazed with protection.
anti saloon, pure and honest government and
equal rights to all men. 1t has only to look to
its past record to learn what 1t can achieve by
treading in this bread and straight way.-Phila-
delphia Press.
are sure Of every electoral vote received by Mr..
Blaine in 1854, with Indiana next to a certainty,
and good prospects for NeT Jersey or Connectl-
the Republicans they are inspired to new zeal
and diligence in the campaign next year. at the
approaches of which We now stand.-Chicago
Journal
ONE of the most remarkable apparent facts
about the New Jersey vote is the feeble showing
made by the Prohibitionists and the almost total
disappearance of the Labor vote The Prohi-
bitionists were making great efforts. New Jer-
sey is their banner State But. so lar as the re-
turns show at present they did not get nearly as
many votes as they did last year.-New ork
Mail and Express.
WHAT Mr. Blaine killed again7 Why, wasn't
he dead in ls84-absolutely and totally extinctl
And wasn't he killed the next year and again
last year, The mugwumps ought not to waste
so much moralizing upon political corpse,
they assume him to be. A public who has
to be killed off regularly every November may
be suspected Of having considerable vitality.
New York. Tribune.
that Mr. Cleveland will be the Democratic
candidate there is every assurance. and that he
will succeed himself there is every assurance
unless the Republicans succeed in efectng
real closing-llp of the ranks and select a stand
ard bearer who viii represent in unmistak-
able manner all that the party has ever stood
for in the way Of patriotic aspirations and prac-
teal craftsmanship The Republican party is
beyond comparison richer than the Democratic
in the right kind of material for a frst-rate
ticket and dozen can easily be named
who are much more than the peers of Mr.. Cleve-
land in all the qualities that President of the
United States should have. Its one chance of
winning next year n the face of the present
prognostications rests in the selection of ticket
that viii be beyond criticism, and in the asser-
ton of such high ideals as viii challenge the
support of the best patriotism and the best intel
hgence of the Nation.-Philadelph Evening
Telegraph tDem.)